Who we are
Nickel City Splash is an adult swim team sanctioned by United States Masters Swimming (USMS) and affiliated with the Men's and Women's Varsity Swim Teams at the University at Buffalo.
Team survey
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What we do
We have coached workouts at UB's Alumni Pool. Click here for the June 2009 schedule.
The July schedule is as follows:
- Regular Tuesday/Thursday 6:00a.m.-7:15a.m. throughout the month
- Sunday, July 5th 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
- NO PRACTICE THE WEEKEND OF JULY 11th and 12th
- Saturday, July 18th 6:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
- Saturday, July 25th 6:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
How you can join
- Show up for practice (map) and ask the coach for a two-week trial
- If you like it, fill out the application form and pay the dues ($75 per semester or summer, or $200/year)
- Join USMS
- Subscribe to the team listserv by sending an e-mail to listserv@listserv.buffalo.edu with the following message (use your actual name!):
sub rai-nickelcity-list First Name Last Name
The e-mail account from which you send the above message will be the one which receives listserv messages from the team. If you have difficulty getting subscribed, send e-mail to jameson@buffalo.edu.
Upcoming NC Splash Related Events
Carly's Crossing is August 16th and a great opportunity for NCS swimmers to demonstrate their swimming skills for a good cause! Here's the link for the event.
Check out this footage of Mike and Rick in the last leg of their 100 meter fly event at RIT on Sunday, November 2nd. Great job!
Great Article on the Value of Swimming
Here is a hotlink to a brief but intriguing article about the value of swimming. It appeared in a recent issue of the AARP magazine. Check it out! [http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/lap_it_up.html]
Member Update
On a somber note, long time Nickel City Splash member Greg Davis has moved to Kansas City. Here is what Greg e-mailed me recently: "Well, it was a tough decision for us to move to Kansas City, but, as you would imagine, several factors contributed to our conclusion:
1. Sally is from KC and has always wanted to go back
2. Our children have flown the coop to college and we are officially empty nesters
3. The tax burden in NY is wearing us down
4. After I was laid off in Feb, I began looking for opportunities to address factors 1 and 3. Fortunately, I found a fantastic opportunity within Financial Services that I'm pursuing now.That is kind of you to pass on a note to the swimmers. As a matter of fact, I have found a Masters Program here that meets for 90 minutes four times a week. There are fewer swimmers with an activist coach who doesn't tolerate mediocrity (like I'm used to). With any luck, I will continue to progress as a man of the water, my goal to, one day, achieve a level of perfection comparable to Steve T.
On another note, I had the opportunity to participate in my second Tour de Cure this summer just yesterday. Turns out the Kansas City version of the event left from the Kansas Motor Speedway and I participated in the 65 miler along with about 25 other riders. Overall, the event is considerably smaller than the one we’re used to, but it was fun just the same.
Hope you are well. A good email to use for social or humorous transmissions is moc.liamg|dcoeno#moc.liamg|dcoeno and my cell phone remains the same, 716-983-9289."
Please send Greg an e-mail if you are heading to Kansas City MO, or just to say hello!
